3rd Grade Goals

 Welcome to 3rd Grade 

Reading Goals

Term 2 (January-March)

Unit 4: Character Studies

  • Students will be learning about the characters in their books by studying how they talk, act, like
  • Students will look at character traits of the characters in their books
  • Students will develop theories about their characters
  • Students notice how characters move along the story mountain
  • Students will learn how characters face and react to trouble 
  • Students will learn the relationship between the main character and the secondary characters
  • Students will learn that characters learn a lesson in the story 
  • Students will compare and contrast characters across stories 
  • Students will debate about character across stories
  • Students will apply what they have learned about a character 

Unit 5: Test Prep

  • Students will practice reading strategies while reading fiction and nonfiction passages and answering questions
  • Students will determine the main idea, use subheadings to guide their reading, use context clues to figure out meaning
  • Students will work on building their reading stamina
  • Students will read folktales and determine the moral of the story

Writing Goals

Term 2 (January-March)

Unit 4: Baby Literary Essay (Opinion)

  • Students will write claims about the characters in their books
  • Students will think about relevant details and irrelevant details to support their claim
  • Students will use relevant details from their text to support their claim
  • Students will develop a claim about a story and the characters in a story
  • Students will use reasons and details to support their claim
  • Students will include an introduction and conclusion in their literary essay 

Unit 5: Test Prep

  • Students will pay close attention to understand what the question is asking
  • Students will determine the difference between explaining “why” and how it’s different from “how”
  • Students will notice how parts of stories fit together and relate to the whole story
  • Students will write a response that includes a great introduction
  • Students will use evidence from text to support their claim

Math Goals

Term 2 (January-March)

Topic 7: Represent and Interpret Data

  • Students use graph to compare and interpret data
  • Students use frequency tables and picture graphs to compare and interpret data
  • Students use scaled bar graphs to represent data
  • Students use graphs to solve problems

Topic 8: Understanding Strategies and Properties to Add and Subtract

  • Students solve real world problems using properties of addition
  • Students identify patterns in addition table and explain them using algebraic thinking
  • Students will use mental math to add and subtract
  • Students will use place value and a number line to round numbers
  • Students will use rounding or compatible numbers to estimate a sum
  • Students will solve one step and multi step problems by modeling with math

Topic 9: Fluently Add and Subtract within 1,000

  • Students will add two 3-digit numbers by breaking apart problems into simpler problems
  • Students will use regrouping to add 3 digit numbers
  • Students will add three or more number using addition strategies
  • Students will use multi-digit numbers using the expanded algorithm
  • Students will use regrouping to subtract 3 digit numbers
  • Students will use addition and subtraction to justify a conjecture

Topic 10: Multiply  by Multiples of 10

  • Students will use patterns to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
  • Students will use different strategies to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
  • Students will use properties of multiplication to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
  • Students will use the structure of multiplication and place value to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10

Topic 11: Use Operations with Whole Numbers to Solve Problems

  • Students will draw diagrams and write equations to solve two-step problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers and multiplication and division of whole numbers
  • Students will examine relationships between quantities in a two-step word problem by writing equations
  • Students will critique the reasoning of others by asking questions, identifying mistakes, and providing suggestions for improvement

Topic 12: Understand Fractions as Numbers

  • Students will understand how to read and write unit fractions for equal sized parts of a region
  • Students will use a fraction to represent multiple copies of a unit fraction
  • Students will determine and draw the whole given one part
  • Students will represent fractions less than 1 and greater than 1 on a number line
  • Students will measure length to the nearest half inch and show the data on a line plot
  • Students will measure length to the nearest fourth inch and show the data on a line plot
  • Students will determine when a problem has either extra or missing information 

Topic 13: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison

  • Students will find equivalent fractions that name the same part of the whole
  • Students will represent equivalent fractions on the number line
  • Students will use models such as fraction strips to compare fractions
  • Students will use benchmark numbers to compare fractions
  • Students will use the number line to compare fractions
  • Students will use fractions to represent whole numbers
  • Students will construct math arguments using fractions